{"product_id":"9781440562853","title":"A Big Man, A Fast Man","description":"Benjamin Appel is of that rare species, a native New Yorker. Born in 1907, he was raised in the tough, Hell’s-kitchen district of the West 50’s. Like any other kid in a tough city neighborhood, he had to fight for his self-respect as a human being. At De Witt Clinton high school he was a football, crew, and track star. After graduation, he entered the University of Pennsylvania but later transferred to New York University and then Lafayette. He took a post-graduate course at Columbia. While at Lafayette, he published his first book, a volume of verse. Since then he has written five books and has had more than one hundred short stories published. His books are a study of American crime and lawlessness, beginning with small-time holdups, going on to crime as an organized monopoly, emphasizing it in prostitution, labor racketeering, and finally, crime organized into native fascism. He has held a variety of jobs - bank clerk, factory hand, farm hand, lumberjack, tenement house inspector, professional fisherman. Until recently, when he was called to Washington, D.C. to take a position with the OCD, he was employed as a workman in the plant of the Republic Aviation Corporation on Long Island. He is married and has one daughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis best-known books are \u003ci\u003eBrain Guy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeople Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRun Around\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePower House\u003c\/i\u003e. (1943)","brand":"Adams Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140092412144,"sku":"9781440562853","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781440562853_p0.jpg?v=1763758447","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440562853","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}